{"id":47207,"date":"2017-11-03T03:29:40","date_gmt":"2017-11-03T07:29:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/utnews.utoledo.edu\/?p=47207"},"modified":"2017-11-02T20:57:57","modified_gmt":"2017-11-03T00:57:57","slug":"placekicker-named-groza-award-semifinalist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/11_03_2017\/placekicker-named-groza-award-semifinalist","title":{"rendered":"Placekicker named Groza Award semifinalist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Toledo junior placekicker Jameson Vest was named one of 20 national semifinalists for the Lou Groza Award yesterday. The award annually honors the top placekicker in the nation.<\/p>\n<p>Vest has made 19 of his 22 field-goal attempts this season, with a long kick of 49 yards vs. Miami (Fla.). He leads the Mid-American Conference and is second in the nation with 2.1 field goals made per game.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/?attachment_id=47208\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-47208\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Vest-semifinalist.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"361\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-47208\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Vest-semifinalist.jpeg 540w, https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Vest-semifinalist-300x201.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a>Semifinalists for the Lou Groza Award will be voted on by a panel of more than 100 Football Bowl Subdivision head coaches, sports information directors, media members, former Groza finalists and current NFL kickers to select the three finalists. <\/p>\n<p>These finalists will be announced Nov. 21 and honored at the 26th annual Lou Groza Collegiate Placekicker Awards Banquet Dec. 4 in Palm Beach County. <\/p>\n<p>The same panel then selects the winner, who will be announced live on ESPN at the Home Depot College Football Awards Show Thursday, Dec. 7.<\/p>\n<p>The Award is named for National Football League Hall of Fame kicker Lou &#8220;The Toe&#8221; Groza, who played 21 seasons with the Cleveland Browns. Groza won four NFL Championships with Cleveland and was named NFL Player of the Year in 1954. Although an All-Pro offensive lineman as well, Groza ushered in the notion that there should be a place on an NFL roster for a kicker.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jameson Vest, the placekicker for the Toledo Rockets, is one of 20 players up for this year&#8217;s Lou Groza Award.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47207"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47207"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47213,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47207\/revisions\/47213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}